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It may be simply a game of words, but if taken literally, then the point is still missed. There is no “update”. These three could be named 5.s, 5.e and 5.i respectively. For setfenv, _ENV and integer experiments. No “justs”, please, this poisons Lua image in a wrong way.

Python 3 was meant to solve a problem (among other features ofc). 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 are engineerng experiments, there is no “problem” that LJ has in respect to these two, nor the other way round.




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